Spin Off - Where Did You Get All Your Books??

[nannyde]

I have cloth books, plastic books, and thick board books out for the kids. The younger kids get just the cloth and plastic. The older kids get the thick board books.

I don't keep regular books out. I've had too many problems with trying that in the past. The kids do really well with the big quilted thick cloth books and the plastic ones.

I scored big time on Ebay once and bought a big lot of cloth books. I was shocked when I got them because they were so awesome. I hadn't ever seen books that big and nicely made. The pictures made them appear normal sized.

The kids LOVE them and don't abuse them.

I bought them from a seller who had cloth puppets too and it was the same thing. I had never seen puppets like that before and boy was I thrilled when I realized the quality.

Those were the good ole days on Ebay... I miss that.

[daycare]

we have a really neat out reach program in town. It is a reading awarness program and they have a book store. They sell books from 10 cents to as much as 3 dollars. I have gotten most of my books there or from yard sales.

If I really need the book, I will get it used from amazon

[DCMom]

How do you sign up to receive Scholastic at your house? Around here I can only get it if I'm a teacher and it's sent to a school.

Go to Scholastic.com, click 'Teachers', under quick links click 'Book Clubs' and then go from there. All the information you need to sign up is right there. You can set up parent online ordering thru this page also.

I've never had a problem with an order or any problems being a home daycare. There customer service people are really helpful and friendly.

[Michael]

Other Book Club threads: https://www.daycare.com/forum/tags.php?tag=book+club

[PitterPatter]

The bookcase thread got me thinking.

Where do you get all your books? I have quite a few but would like more. I typically hit the library a few times a month to stock up on books that are related to our theme. My only problem is finding all the library books when it's time to return them .

They get all mixed in with my other books or my girls take them up to their room and I find them under the bed:: or in their closet. I'm a member of Children's Book Club so when I was starting up I purchased a lot of the more traditional preschool books from there but it was pretty expensive.

I always keep my eye open for craigslist ads selling books and hit the thrift store but they are always hit or miss.

Does anyone have any other good sources for buying lots of books?

We were members of the book clubs as well but when my son started school the collecting really took off. He was given the Scholastic order form ( same I had as a kid). That is what really kicked our collection in gear. Each time he brought home the list/order form I would buy at least 4 books. It got so bad at Christmas time I spent $70 just in books from Scholastic. We already had a big collection of board books from when he was a baby so those combined pretty much filled 3 book shelves. I also pick up more at yard sales and goodwill etc every year. We have literally hundereds of books now ranging from simple board books to the puzzle books where it's a story (jack and the beanstalk for example) and the graphics portion of the page is a puzzle. Those are a big hit. The top fav are the lift the flaps! No matte how many times the kids look at these it's like a new surprise under the flap every time! So cute!

[countrymom]

I spend alot at scholastics too, its so hard because they have so many good cheap books. Also, with my kids, they love to read so I can't keep up. I'm glad my kids love to read because dh grew up not reading, he just doesn't understand how exciting it is to read.

[Pammie]

Thanks for the tip about the Scholastic clubs allowing home daycares!

I didn't even try to register in the past because their website says that they have to "verify" school information.

So I went ahead this morning and completed the registration - received an email that said the verification would take 2 days - but an hour later received my "welcome" email!

I'm so excited to be able to order the club books - and offer the monthly flyers to my families!!!!

[KEG123]

My son is enrolled in the dolly parton program... so he's gotten 1 book per month since he was born and he is 3 now. We got tons as gifts. Thrift stores. Our library has a used book store in the front with 25 cent children books. Very few have actually come from the store.

Will definitely look into scholastic!